I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you you better use it.

For me science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

Ah the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Ooh it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

I have great respect for President Bush Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.